chris_wood

No utilitarian philosophy explains a snow crystal, no doctrine of use or disuse. Water has merely leapt out of vapor and thin nothingness in the night sky to array itself in form. There is no logical explanation for the existence of a snowflake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that shadow world beyond nature, that final world which contains - if anything contains - the explanation of men and catfish and green leaves.
Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey, 1946